Isoctenus areia Polotow & Brecovit, 2009

Pontes Moraes, Isadora M., Polotow, Daniele, Labarque, Facundo M. & Da Silva, Marcio B., 2023, Description of three new species of Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880 and new records for I. areia Polotow & Brescovit (Araneae, Ctenidae) from northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5315 (2), pp. 177-186 : 185

Isoctenus areia Polotow & Brecovit, 2009

New records. This species was hitherto known only from its type locality in Areia, state of Paraíba ( Polotow & Brescovit 2009). Its distribution is expanded to the surrounding areas of Mamanguape , state of Paraíba, and Igarassu , state of Pernambuco ( Fig. 7 ). The type-locality is a Brejo de Altitude forest , a montane humid forest surrounded by semiarid, lowland Caatinga. With the new records, the known species range expands to the typical coastal forest, probably in a disjunct and well-known distribution pattern in the northern Atlantic Rain Forest .

Material examined. BRAZIL, Paraíba: Mamanguape, Reserva Biológica Guaribas , 6º44’S, 35º09’W, 1 male, 28–29.X.2011, E.P. Lorenzo et al. coll. (ColUFPB AR 763) ; Pernambuco, Igarassu, Refúgio Ecológico Charles Darwin (RECD), 7º49’S, 34º52’W, 1 male, 8.VIII.2011, A.M. De Souza et al. Coll. (ColUFPB AR 247); Usina São José, 7º33’S, 35º02’W, 6 males and 3 females, IX.2013, E.P. Lorenzo coll. (ColUFPB AR 1606; 1704) .

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FIGURE 7. A–B, Geographic distribution records of Isoctenus jussara new species, I. cabula new species, and I. botocudos new species, and new records of Isoctenus areia. A, South America with demarcation of northeastern Brazil; B, Close up of the Brazilian northeastern regions where the species are distributed.